The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis

They send the bulldozers in after the tanks to obliterate small dwellings and homes. These things can't take out multi-story buildings by themselves, they're for residential houses. Sometimes, the soldiers even tell the occupants of the house before they run it over, but I doubt they'll bother this time. Same thing they do every time Isreal decides they want an access road where some huts happen to be, come in and stomp em to dust.

They're literally going to wipe the people of Gaza right off the map.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27895404

Unless the rumors are true and Hammas has the latest and greatest anti tank weapons.

Quoting: Copperhead

They don't appear to have the latest and greatest anything. And even so, they'll use them to defend their centers of power. There can't be enough AT weapons to defend the neighborhoods.

This has happened before in contested areas... if Israel wants a patch of land, they bulldoze all occupying structures to the ground. And gathering by the number of bulldozers this time, they want the whole strip.

The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis

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The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis

The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis